john f the voting rights thing is a higher bar, tell us about infrastructure. because that s another one where we have heard so many times, we are just about there, right? and we are on plan, c, d, e, f, g not quite sure where. is it going to be a reality? this is the long slog portion of joe biden s first year. obviously he got very rapid success with his covid relief bill. i still think on voting rights you can t rule out what ron brown steen said in the last hour that over time a united democratic party seeing roadblocking from republicans may cause democrats to move forward to move forward in some way the side step or alter the filibuster. but they may already have a way. the budget reconciliation offer. on this plan, they have made progress. there is significantly more
your word was this passes, unattached and as a stand ialon bill. fully funded. it is being add straigministrat remar remarkably well. it is getting relief to those who needed the most. this is like john has plowed the field, everything has been done and letters been written and put in the envelope and stamp is on it. all the senate has to do is mail the letter. that s all we are asking this em to do. they should do it before august 2nd. keep your word. that s the word. jon stewart and john field, thank you very much. and john f, thank you very much.
well. now we want to bring in someone who anticipated this very thing. john is the former acting director of immigration and customs enforcement or i.c.e. and former acting general council for homeland security. john, welcome back to you. and, you know, again, it s you have this group of children. 2,300 children already separated from their parents. so, how do you reunify them when many of these kids don t even know how to contact mom and dad? brooke, this is the fundamental failure of the trump administration on this. setting aside whether you think this policy is good or bad. i don t think it s defensible in any way, shape or form. if you implement a policy like this, you have to engage in detailed planning and identifying how those kids are going to be reunited with their families, what shelters, what are the capacity? this is painstaking work that needs to be done when you roll out a significant policy. i think what we re seeing with
court and pull this kid out of a licensed foster facility and reunite them in a detention center with their parent. also, the court oftentimes wants to see the parent and make sure the parent is not, you know, not a bad parent or otherwise going to put the child in ha. the parent can t do that when they re in custody. this is a very complex area with lots of different agencies and lots of different laws in play and i m not sure anyone fully understood this when the law was implemented. you think about the kids and the zigzag and the journey to cross the border and the parents go another way and guardian or foster care and brought back and it s a lot. it s a lot for a lot of these young people. so, john f, if they keep the ze tolerance policy and they keep it and continue to prosecute everyone who crosses the border legally, where then will they put all of these people? how will they have all the de n
the gulf war and been through all of that other than going back to the cuban missile crisis, we ve never had a dictator say, hey, i might nuke us, even cuba wasn t going to nuke us, they didn t have that technology. this is a dangerous situation, personally with at least part of my portfolio i m on the sidelines. i m more of a trader. dagen: john, i want to ask you before we go, give you the final word on this, what about the cost of us, the u.s. not acting and taking a tough stance against this this rising nuclear threat. we are going to have to do that sooner or later and might as well be now because this guy the nuclear armaments and potentially could sell to get money.